Mexico decriminalizes recreational use of marijuana but not pot sales 3 minutes read
By Eduard Ribas i Admetlla
Mexico City, Jun 28 (EFE).- After the brouhaha in the Mexican Congress over legalizing recreational marijuana use, the Supreme Court on Monday issued an historic ruling lifting the prohibition on the recreational use of pot in Mexico although selling it is still a crime.
“Today is an historic day for freedoms. After a long road, this Supreme Court is consolidating the right to the … recreational use of marijuana,” the president of the high court, Arturo Zaldivar, said after the vote.
Eight of the 11 justices voted in favor of allowing recreational pot use while nine voted in favor of various other measures involved in the case, meaning that in both situations the high court voted to nullify the five articles in the General Health Law preventing legal recreational pot use.
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By Eduard Ribas i Admetlla
Mexico City, Jun 10 (EFE).- It’s possible that they don’t remember her, but all Mexicans at one time or another have seek Laura. Below and to the right, in a little box on their television screens, each morning she translates into sign language the remarks of President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, and often that is not an easy task.
“Hearing impaired people have to understand that he has a very particular way of talking, slower, more colloquial. We have to transmit that,” interpreter Laura Alvarez told EFE on Mexican National Sign Language Day on Thursday.
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Mexico focuses on vaccine drive as pandemic lets up 1 minute read
By Eduard Ribas i Admetlla
Mexico City, May 11 (EFE).- The Covid-19 pandemic has shown signs of easing in Mexico, one of the worst-hit countries in the world, allowing the government to focus on its drive to procure and administer vaccines.
The head of the Mexican government’s Covid-19 response, Hugo López-Gatell, said during a press conference with President Andrés Manuel López Obrador that the country had registered “four continuous months of a reduction in the epidemic.”
Mexico has reported 219,089 Covid-19 deaths and almost 2.37 million infections since the pandemic began but the daily increases have sunk to their lowest in a year. Health authorities on Monday detected 104 deaths and just 704 infections in the last 24 hours.
Vigil held at Mexico City metro accident site amid demands for justice 2 minutes read
By Eduard Ribas i Admetlla
Mexico City, May 7 (EFE).- Hundreds of people gathered Friday at the site of a deadly metro overpass accident in Mexico City to pay tribute to the 26 victims of the worst tragedy in the city since an earthquake in 2017.
The accident took place Monday night when a beam of an elevated section caved in, causing the train carriages to dangle in a V shape.
On Friday evening, locals began approaching the door of the Olivos station on Line 12, which remains closed, to place candles in honor of the victims of the accident, which also left 88 injured, 33 of whom are still receiving treatment.